"The Great Global Warming Blunder" unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth's climate system is far more sensitive to human activities and carbon dioxide than it really is.
In fact, Spencer presents astonishing new evidence that recent warming is not the fault of humans, but the result of chaotic, internal natural cycles that have been causing periods of warming and cooling for millennia. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not necessarily to be feared; "The Great Global Warming Blunder" explains that burning of fossil fuels may actually be beneficial for life on Earth.
As group-think behavior and misguided global warming policy proposals threaten the lives of millions of the world's poorest, most vulnerable citizens, "The Great Global Warming Blunder" is a scintillating expose and much-needed call for debate.
Author(s): Roy Spencer
Edition: Reprint ed.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Year: 2010, 2012
Language: English
Pages: 216
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 · Climate Change Happens
GLOBAL TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS: 0 A.D. TO 2009
THE ELUSIVE “TEMPERATURE TREND”
APPLES, ORANGES, AND ERRORS
THE HOCKEY STICK
THE PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION
NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY HAPPENS–WITH OR WITHOUT THE IPCC
Chapter 2 · “We Are Going to Destroy the Creation”
THE VOSTOK ICE CORE RECORD
GLOBAL WARMING PROPAGANDA
Chapter 3 · Forcing: How Warming Gets Started
THE FORCING OF TEMPERATURE CHANGE: ENERGY IMBALANCE
GLOBAL ENERGY IMBALANCE CAUSED BY INCREASING CO
THE DIRECT WARMING EFFECT OF DOUBLING CO
THE CHARACTER OF THE TEMPERATURE RESPONSE TO AN ENERGY IMBALANCE
Chapter 4 · Feedback: How Much Warming Results from the Forcing
SIMPLE EXAMPLES OF FEEDBACKS
ESTIMATING FEEDBACKS
POTENTIAL POSITIVE FEEDBACKS IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM
Chapter 5 · How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists
THE CLIMATE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
FEEDBACKS ARE THE KEY
CLOUD ILLUSIONS
SATELLITE ESTIMATION OF FEEDBACKS: THE TRADITIONAL WAY
CAUSE OR EFFECT?
A SIMPLE CLIMATE MODEL
THE TRUE SIGNATURE OF FEEDBACK
EVIDENCE FROM THE IPCC MODELS
SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF FEEDBACK (THE RIGHT WAY)
GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT
WHAT IT ALL MEANS
Chapter 6 · Global Warming: Satellite Evidence for an Alternative Explanation
CAN MOTHER NATURE CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING?
THE PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION AS AN AGENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
A SIMPLE MODEL OF GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY THE PDO
SATELLITE EVIDENCE FOR THE PDO CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING
WHAT IT ALL MEANS
Chapter 7 · CO: Dangerous Pollutant or Elixir of Life?
NATURAL FLOWS OF CARBON DIOXIDE
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
SHOULD WE BE CUTTING BACK ON OUR CO EMISSIONS?
BIG BUSINESS
Chapter 8 · Out on a Limb: Predictions for the Future
FUTURE TEMPERATURES
THE IPCC HAS AN EPIPHANY
AN IPCC SCIENTIST HAS A “BLUE DRESS” MOMENT
INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE IPCC AND CLIMATE RESEARCH FUNDING
PUBLIC DEBATES ON GLOBAL WARMING
EPA REGULATIONS AND CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION
THE PUBLIC GETS INFORMED
Summary & Conclusions
NOTES
Index
